MrDvAnt wrote:People keep reviewing my character app and not approving or rejecting it. It keeps getting my hopes up and then dashing them.

Failure at multitasking was the main culprit on my part. Sometimes you open an app only to get drawn into having to focus on something else (like company showing up for the 4th...), and it's better to just pass the app along for someone else who has more time than leave it open so that no one else knows to take a look at it.

MrDvAnt wrote:People keep reviewing my character app and not approving or rejecting it. It keeps getting my hopes up and then dashing them.

Failure at multitasking was the main culprit on my part. Sometimes you open an app only to get drawn into having to focus on something else (like company showing up for the 4th...), and it's better to just pass the app along for someone else who has more time than leave it open so that no one else knows to take a look at it.

WildGiller wrote:(Is also concerned that is now conceptualizing my actions in terms of coded commands..)

That happens, it gets weirder when you say them aloud.

I already make my life choices based on things like, "Well an espresso will give me a temporary +10 to stamina.. but I'll be penalized at least a -5 to constitution on cool-down.. not sure of the debuff timer on that.."

Is it so hard to stick to the Middle Earth setting for people? There are plenty of games where you can use modern words and phrases. It makes me feel like a grumpy old man when I have to rp around it. There are, surprisingly or not, a lot of websites that talk about what life in middle earth was probably like. I know some people may be new to roleplaying or the Middle Earth setting, but it's a little immersion breaking when people blatantly seem to ignore the setting or get icly upset when someone icly comments negatively about their comment/action. And just for you grey character types and to show I'm not an actual prude, there -were- brothels/prostitutes in Middle Earth, in Gondor and Arnor, at least, but I figure if they were there, then they were probably elsewhere, though they worked as seamstresses and the brothels were disguised as bathhouses.

Melwen (S."Lovemaiden" pl.Milwyn), also Sweetsinger and Nightsinger, originally was a common term in the Dúnadan Kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor to designate a female Minstrel and Dancer who was a learned entertainer and companion, however the term soon fell into disgrace and became a synonym for a mistress, courtesan and later an ordinary prostitute. Since prostitution was not allowed or at least not socially acceptable under the Dúnadan rule, sweetsingers often formally worked as seamstresses or in brothels disguised as bathhouses.Sweetsingers usually recruited from the lowest and poorest classes of society and were usually common men, not of Dúnadan heritage. A few brothels however gained riches and reputation for service and discretion and some Milwyn were quite wealthy, although disrespected, citizens.

I bet I know what the next building project will be... The Utterby Bathhouse and Seamstress Training Acadamy.

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Just saying. I'm pretty sure prostitution existed (and was in many circles frowned upon), but I'm skeptical of this precise description. Do you have another source for it?

Nope, that's where I got it from, but it seems at least like something that could have been true.

ETA:It was mostly added for humor, but I think, at least, this would be the general level of acceptance of brothels/prostitution/casual sex. People would know not to talk about it in public, unless in the agreed upon locations to maintain their reputations.

This term seems to at least be derived from a Sindarin term, if that's what the S. means, anyway.

Sindarin: Melethwen (Love-maiden). I found this, so maybe so.

Side note: Tolkien actually met and fell in love with his wife at 18, but cut off ties and waited until 21 to marry her to honor his guardian's (a Catholic priest named Father Morgan) edict that she was a distraction and that he couldn't see her again until his 21st birthday. Of course he also wrote to her the night of his birthday, confessing his love and asking her to marry him.